Colotis euippe omphale (Godart, 1819)

Liseki, Steven D. & Vane-Wright, Richard I., 2014, Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: family Pieridae, subfamily Pierinae, Journal of Natural History 48 (25 - 26), pp. 1543-1583 : 1550-1551

Colotis euippe omphale (Godart, 1819)

Larsen 1996: pl. 7, figs 67 ii. d’ Abrera 1997: 83 (2 figs.). SI: Figures 7i,j, 8a–j.

Forewing length: male 17.5–25.0 mm (mean (n = 7) 21.74 mm, SD = 2.665); female 19.0– 23.5 mm (mean (n = 6) 20.43 mm, SD = 1.299).

Records. According to Kielland (1990, p.58) this butterfly is common in wooded areas, open grassland and savannah, at sea level to 1900 m, from southern Tanzania throughout coastal areas north to the Kenyan border. Included here as a member of the lower slopes fauna on the basis of the record by Butler (1888, p.92, as Teracolus omphaloides Butler, 1876 ), with several specimens from the slopes of Kilimanjaro and from Taveta in the BMNH and OUMNH collections. This subspecies also occurs in Kenya, eastern DRC, Malawi, the Comoros, and south to much of South Africa and west to Namibia. The species as a whole occurs widely in most of Africa and Arabia ( Ackery et al. 1995, p.189).

Females vary in upperside ground colour, mostly white or yellow (some are a more sandy hue), and the extent of orange at the forewing tip. Males vary considerably in the extent of the black markings of the upperside. The ground colour of the underside hindwing varies from white to yellowish or pinkish.